I think that perhaps it's the "Skip Inbox" piece of the filter, doing the
heavy lifting, in my case.


On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Zach Wegner <[email protected]> wrote:

> > I'd like to second Stuart's approach, at least for gmail use; gmail users
> will find the following of interest.
> >
> > I have not had to drag any computer-go messages out of my spam box ever
> since I:
> >
> > Created a label, "[computer-go]", by going to Settings --> Labels -->
> Create new label.
> > Created a filter, by going to Settings --> Filters --> Create a new
> filter.
> >
> > I disagree that doing so is merely treating the symptoms of a problem.
> What it is,
> > is sorting incoming mail, and putting it into folders, before the spam
> box ever sees it,
> > which the spam box never does.  The "label" really acts like a folder.
> >
> > This obviates the need for a spam-filter ever to be applied to these
> messages at all, and so it isn't applied.
>
> This isn't quite true. I've used a label for this list for a long
> time, and it didn't stop lots of messages getting sent to spam (with
> the label still applied, of course). Hitting "Not Spam" didn't help
> either. Stuart's tip did seem to fix it though.
>
> Zach
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